This class was an interesting experience. It was fun finding ways to represent various topics artistically and musically. I especially enjoyed getting more practice with photoshop to make digital works, and drawing parallels between music and protein structures. Before this, … Continue reading
As an artist and a chemist, I’ve always found it very interesting that chemistry is so hard to illustrate. In physics you can draw pretty good diagrams, and in biology illustration can often be done through observation. Note that I’ve … Continue reading
We all learn in elementary school that the colors of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors and orange, green, and purple are the secondary colors. However, we learned … Continue reading
This week we learned about a concept that our readings call “color constancy.” I find this absolutely fascinating, because it changes the way we define color completely. Normally, one might claim that an object’s color can be measured by the … Continue reading
In class this week, we talked about how the human eye perceives color based on what wavelengths of white light are reflected from an object. However, what if the light that is hitting the object isn’t white to begin with? … Continue reading
Last week we learned about primary structures of proteins: the order of their amino acids. We know that the secondary and tertiary structure of the prion protein causes it to be normal versus infectious, so I was curious about the … Continue reading
This week in class we learned about alpha helices and beta sheets in protein structures. It’s thought that prion proteins become infectious when some of their alpha helices are converted into beta forms. I did a little research to find … Continue reading
This week we learned about prion diseases, which are 100% fatal to all patients. I decided to look into some of the treatment options that might exist or are being developed for these diseases. The research that goes into treating … Continue reading
This week we learned about how the anthocyanin and flavonol pigments in red cabbage act as indicators. The anthocyanins turn reddish pink under acidic conditions and blue under more basic conditions, whereas the flavonols were colorless under acidic conditions and … Continue reading
This week in class, we learned about how polarity affects solubility. Difference in solubility is especially valuable in the art of lithography, a kind of print-making developed in the late 18th century. This chemical process was developed by a writer/composer … Continue reading